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This page contains links to a variety of useful external resources, from online lessons to datasets.
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If you have a good question but need to know more to answer it, these online lessons may help.
Codecademy Codecadamy contains a wide variety of useful lessons in programming. Of particular note is their [Python course](https://www.codecademy.com/catalog/language/python). Numerical Physics for Mere Mortals This is a brief introduction into computational physics by Rhett Allain, a Physics Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University.The websites below host a plethora of fascinating data, waiting to be used. These datasets are about music, video games, sports, art, cars, cosmetics, astrophysics, chemistry, ice cream, issues of social justice, movies, politics, and so, so much more.
- City of Chicago Data Portal
- New York City Open Data
- US Government Open Data
- data.world
- Google Data Explorer
- Social Science Data Resources compiled by Northwestern University
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research(ICPSR)
- IPUMS: A large collection of census data (see also here for the same data in a different format)
- Census data in a GIS format (if you're wondering what GIS is, see here and here)
- Global demographics data (much of this data is licensed, but may be available through Northwestern Library; see their Getting Started Page)
- Social Explorer (repackaged census data, available through Northwestern University)
If you want a goal, consider aiming to enter one of the competitions listed here!
- Northwestern Project Showcase
- Google Science Fair
- Intel ISEF
- The Mathematical and Interdisciplinary Contests in Modeling
- kaggle Data Science Competitions
There are also a wide variety of ways to get involved in research without doing the analysis yourself. The best resource for this is the Zooniverse. Take a look through their projects and see if you find anything of interest.